Overview

Childbearing, from the standpoint of psychological medicine, is the most complex event in human experience. Of the dozens of disorders that affect the generative process, or are unleashed as complications, many fall under the heading of 'psychoses' - profound disturbances of thought, perception, cognition and behaviour. These psychoses disrupt personal and family life at a critical time. Reviewing the wide range of psychoses that complicate the reproductive process, Ian Brockington proposes radical changes to the concepts of postpartum and menstrual psychoses, with suggestions for fresh research initiatives. Armed with this comprehensive knowledge and wielding a raft of interventions, many women can be restored to health and their vital roles in the family and community. When the risk factors are known, multidisciplinary preventive strategies can transform the lives of vulnerable women. This is essential reading for psychiatrists, obstetricians and gynaecologists, midwives, general practitioners, neuroscientists and related professions worldwide.

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Author:   Ian Brockington (University of Birmingham)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
Imprint:   Cambridge University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 16.20cm , Height: 2.20cm , Length: 24.10cm
Weight:   0.810kg
ISBN:  

9781107113602

ISBN 10:   1107113601
Pages:   450
Publication Date:   11 August 2017
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Foreword; Preface; List of abbreviations; Part I. Introduction: 1. Data; 2. History; Part II. The Organic Psychoses of Pregnancy and the Puerperium: 3. Infective delirium; 4. Eclamptic and Donkin psychoses; 5. Wernicke–Korsakow psychosis; 6. Chorea psychosis; 7. Vascular disorders; 8. Other specific neuropsychiatric disorders; 9. Incidental organic psychoses; Part III. The Psychopathology of Parturition: 10. Introduction; 11. Parturient delirium; 12. Unconscious delivery; 13. Acts of desperation; 14. Other parturient psychoses; 15. Delirium and stupor immediately after the birth; Part IV. Non-Organic Psychoses of Childbearing: 16. The literature; 17. Symptoms; 18. Classification; 19. Clinical forms; 20. Episode onset; 21. The bipolar/cycloid group; 22. Management; 23. Risks; Part V. Menstrual Psychosis: 24. The catamenial process; 25. Medicine and menstruation; 26. Definition and classification; 27. Timing within the menstrual cycle; 28. Timing within the life cycle; 29. Links with the psychoses of childbearing; 30. Investigations; 31. Causes; 32. Management; Part VI. The Challenge and the Opportunity: 33. What is known; 34. Impediments to the growth of knowledge; 35. Research opportunities; Appendix: the Anne Roper interview; Index.

Reviews

'With this monograph, Brockington gives us a most valuable insight into his forty years of experience as a clinician and researcher in the field of mother-infant psychiatry.' Anita Riecher-Rossler, Universitare Psychiatrische Kliniken Basel, Switzerland 'How does medical science progress? First by defining disease entities, then by bringing to bear upon them a new perspective. Brockington first describes the characteristics of psychiatric states associated with the phases of reproduction in women. Then he makes clear that these associations are [aetiological] clues to the nature of the physiological disturbance. Brockington writes with pre-eminent expertise in this field. Starting from an historical and clinical viewpoint, he brings the topic under the scrutiny of modern biological research methods. The contribution is unique.' Tim Crow, University of Oxford

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Ian Brockington is Professor Emeritus at the University of Birmingham.

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